Matt Green of the BPP University School of Health explores how to prepare for GPST stage 3 selection The aim of the general practitioner specialty training (GPST) stage 3 selection centre is to determine whether you meet the various competencies that accurately and fairly identify candidates who are suitable for a career in general practice. Guidance
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Deborah Bowman, professor in medical ethics and law at St George’s, together with Matt Green, from BPP University School of Health, explore how to effectively translate ethical principles into everyday clinical practice Increasingly and gratifyingly, medical students and junior doctors are embarking on masters level programmes in medical ethics and law. For some, postgraduate study is
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Matt Green from BPP University College School of Health explores what steps you should take to ensure that your medical CV stands out for the right reasons. He will be speaking at this year’s BMJ Careers Fair Even in this age of electronic application forms and e-portfolios there is still a need for doctors
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Matt Green from BPP University College School of Health explores what steps you should take to ensure that your medical CV stands out for the right reasons. He will be speaking at this year’s BMJ Careers Fair Even in this age of electronic application forms and e-portfolios there is still a need for doctors to maintain
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In the past decade the principles of effective teaching for doctors have come of age. To earlier generations of doctors no training in specific teaching skills was provided. Teaching was a skill that you were expected to possess or acquire. Effective teaching techniques are now a requirement for doctors, as highlighted by the General Medical
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CVs can still play a pivotal part in the selection of candidates for medical interviews. Matt Green discusses why you should always have your medical CV available to provide when requested Even in the modern age of electronic application forms and portfolio led interviews, a medical curriculum vitae (CV) still has a pivotal part to play in
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Sarah Christie, author of Effective Time Management Skills for Doctors, and Matt Greenfrom BPP University School of Health explore how aspiring and current doctors can make the most of the time that they have, become more efficient in their day to day activities, and achieve a better work-life balance Here we explore five key practical approaches to
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First let’s define what clinical psychology is. Clinical psychology is concerned with the mental health of people across the age span, from young children to older adults, including those with learning disabilities. The aim of this profession is “to reduce psychological distress and to enhance and promote psychological well being by the systematic application of
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In recent years, counselling psychology has become one of the most popular choices of professional psychology. It is increasingly gaining respectability as an independent branch of psychology and it offers employability within a wide range of work settings. First, let’s define what counselling psychology is. Counselling psychology is a type of applied psychology that
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BPP University School of Health has signed a significant publishing agreement with BMJ to produce a new series of reference books and ebooks. Using material from The BMJ’s extensive archives, titles will be published in four series: Clinical Review, Research Methods, Ten Minute Consultation and Easily Missed. The books are targeted towards practising clinicians and
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Antonia Kam discovered she had an incurable condition when her painful symptoms were explained in one of her BPP University healthcare classes. Growing up, Antonia had suffered with severe pain and her joints partially dislocating since the age of 14. It forced her to give up running competitively which was a major blow to her aspirations of
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Name: Professor Christina Cunliffe Job title: Dean of BPP University School of Health. Also Principal of McTimoney College of Chiropractic Study Centre: Abingdon (Oxfordshire) What is your education background (i.e. where did you go to university etc.)? BSc (Hons) and PhD from Manchester University Chartered Biologist Diploma in Chiropractic from the McTimoney College of Chiropractic
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BPP University’s School of Health has secured a large commission to offer Motivational Interviewing training for up to 1,000 GPs and Practice Nurses across the North West of London. The school fended off strong competition to win the Primary Care Continuing Professional Development (CPD) training programme awarded by Health Education North West London as part
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Last week, Professor Lynne Gell, and members of BPP University’s marketing team headed over to the Emergency Services Training Centre (ESTC) in Wallasey, Liverpool for our paramedic practice open day event. Visitors interested in studying BPP University’s brand new Pathway to Higher Education Certificate in Paramedic Practice were given the opportunity to speak to Lynne and
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Name: Dr Petia Paramova Job title: Lecturer in Occupational Psychology Study Centre: Waterloo What is your education background? I completed secondary and further education at Fettes College, Edinburgh. Following this I did my BSc Psychology, my MSc in Occupational Psychology and my PhD at Goldsmiths College, University of London. What is your professional background? I
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Name: Dr Sokratis Dinos Job title: Psychology Programme Leader Study Centre: Waterloo What is your education background? University of Surrey, UK; PhD and MSc City University London, UK; Msc University of the Aegean, Greece; BSc What is your professional background? Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society and have worked in the following places: Editorial
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The beauty of a career in chiropractic is that it can easily satisfy a wide range of personalities and interests, from the person who wants to work with patients all day, or the person motivated to inspire others through teaching within a chiropractic educational institution, to those that want to contribute to the body of
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Located on the third floor of the St. James Building in the heart of Manchester, our new chiropractic clinic is due to open in early September. The new clinic features a main seminar room as well as three clinic rooms. The main seminar room is host to a full body skeleton, as well as models
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Having graduated with an Integrated Undergraduate Masters in Chiropractic from BPP University, you will have some big decisions to make before you can even start in practice. Do you want to work for someone else in an established practice or work by yourself, by either starting or buying your own practice? The advantages of working
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Our undergraduate psychology courses degree will provide you with a sound foundation in all of the key areas of psychology and specialist fields including cognitive, biological, developmental, social, clinical, health, organisational, forensic and neuroscience. Undergraduate programmes are designed with equal focus on theory, empirical research and ethics and with the view to cover the field
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